RS Motorsport :: Classic Speed Restored

Banishit,
It would be great if you could post up the other three pages I've hidden myself well in that photo
I wont get my copy for a while yet.

Thanks
Rhys

Yeah post em up Brian,
it could be a long time before that issue makes it down here.

And once again for those who came along, thanks for a great fun day

had to do these different as you site wont let you have more than 128kb files

wee question, why are most of the 2l pintos runnging such low BHP figures, 80bhp for a std 2 is low 115 bhp is a std at the fly engine, but with small mods should be nearer 125-30 even taking away trans loss they should still be 90 ish ?

Thanks Brian,

Standard power for a 2.0 Pinto, with mechanical fan, and boring exhaust (so like a Cortina had) was 98bhp at flywheel.

Mk1 RS2000's were quoted as 100bhp as they had a Kenlowe fan.

Mk2 RS2000 was quoted as 110bhp due to the better exhaust manifold/system.

If you look the figures they are at rear wheels and also flywheel, (rear wheel measurement is most popular here)
the flywheel figures for a lot of old fashioned Uk dyno's read a bit on the optimistic side, these dyno dynamics machines may be slightly on the low side, but none of them are as accurate as a good engine dyno (though some are pretty close)

The ther thing here with some of the standard cars is they are running on low octane fuel (91) so would not run as much advance.

Although that said there were no big power cars on the day anyway, but if you look at some of the cars, the Lotus Cortina made pretty much exactly what you would expect for the setup.
And also the MK1 GT Cortina made what I would expect from a X-Flow in that state of tune, and certainly the same as similar engines I did in the UK (did have a bit of a hole in the fuelling though)

A couple of Pinto cars had obvious running problems on the day too so we didn't get any great runs. The dyno operators comments are a bit clipped and edited in the article, but I did spend a bit of time trying to point guys in the right direction to the missing power

Mine gave exactly the power I expected though so can't be that far out

Brian,

One page is posted twice, is there one missing mate?

Does anybody mind if I re-post these pics on the other Escort site for a few of the entrants on the day?

Thanks
Rhys

I dont , as technically they should not have been scanned and put on the net anyway, but your so far away thought it would not matter LOL

got another pic in this month now too, a mate just emailed this to me

Never knew he did this

I was going to scan the pages myself this weekend, you get some publicity Mark LOL